The Orville: New Horizons - S3 was a definite improvement over the previous two seasons overall; they’ve kept just enough comedy to keep it fun while getting rid of the “We must appeal to the Family Guy audience” bullshit that really dragged the previous seasons down. All ten episodes were reasonably solid and the stories moved at a decent pace. Also, I haven’t checked the rest of the internet but I’m pretty sure I spotted a goodly number of nods to Star Wars along the way.
Downsides: Apart from the soapboxing (a habit it shares with Star Trek), there were a couple of actors who still are quite wooden, several scenes ended with characters silently staring at each other because the writers clearly didn’t know how to finish the scene, and much as I like Scott Grimes there is a limit to the number of cheesy songs I want to hear him sing and this season blew past that limit quickly.
Still a lot better than ST: Discovery though.